The song's title referred to the fact that Wills had recorded it as a fiddle instrumental in 1938 as " San Antonio Rose ".

In 1938 he urged adherents to delay marriage and child-bearing until after Armageddon, which Wills claims prompted a strong community bias among Witnesses against marriage.

1938 session rosters for Wills recordings show both " lead guitar " and " electric guitar " in addition to guitar and steel guitar.

Other Wills sets include ' Aviation ' ( 1910 ), ' British Butterflies ' ( 1927 ), ' Garden Flowers ' ( 1933 ) and ' Air Raid Precautions ' ( 1938 ).

According to Berry, his favorite song to sing at integrated clubs (“ salt and pepper clubs ”, as he called them ) was the traditional country song " Ida Red ", an uptempo dance number made popular by Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys with their 1938 recording.

In 1969, the Doughboys began recording again ; and in 1973, the band took part in the last recording session for Wills in Dallas for the album, For the Last Time.

In October 1933, Wills was fired and a new group of Doughboys went to Chicago for a recording session with Vocalion ( later Columbia ) Records.

Recording rosters show that beginning in September 1935, Wills utilized two fiddles, two guitars, and Leon McAuliffe playing steel guitar, banjo, drums and other instruments during recording sessions. Bob Wills

In a Clint Eastwood's 1982 movie Honkytonk Man, his character meets Bob Wills ( played by Johnny Gimble, an original Texas Playboy ), who is recording in a studio with other former band members.

The album is a Joker's Wild reunion of sorts, with Rick Wills and Willie Wilson joining Gilmour for the recording of the album.

In 1950 Wills had two Top Ten hits, " Ida Red Likes the Boogie " and " Faded Love ".

They would remain the Sir John's Trio until Berry took one of their tunes, a reworking of Bob Wills ' version of " Ida Red " to Chess Records.

In November 1944, Harriet Ida Pickens and Frances Wills graduated from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School ( Women's Reserve ) at Northampton, Massachusetts, and became the first female African-American WAVE officers.

With encouragement from Muddy Waters, Berry in 1955 brought to Chess Records a tape of his cover of Bob Wills ' version of the tune which he had renamed “ Ida May ” and a blues song he wrote “ Wee Wee Hours ”, which he stated was inspired by Joe Turner ’ s “ Wee Baby Blue ”.

Famous Texan musicians and groups include Bob Wills / Texas Playboys / Light Crust Doughboys, Milton Brown / Musical Brownies / Light Crust Doughboys, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King, Charlie Christian, Red Garland, Eddie Durham, Albert Collins, Blind Willie Johnson, Johnny Copeland, Z. Z.

* " Hang Your Head in Shame " ( Rose / Ed G. Nelson / Steve Nelson )-Bob Wills, Red Foley

Wills Point and the surrounding unincorporated areas are served by the Wills Point ISD.

Wills had served as an Observer with the Royal Naval Air Service during the Great War, and was the driving force behind the expansion of the company from an office and a bathroom ( for developing films ) in Hendon to a business with major contracts in Africa and Asia as well as in the UK.

Wills and Jimmy Piersall served as player representatives for Fleer, helping to bring others on board.

Fred Wills served as club captain for the Demerara Cricket Club ( DCC ) in Georgetown, Guyana, and was a popular announcer at cricket games in the U. S. Guyanese cricket fans have proposed renaming the DCC Pavilion as Fred Wills Pavilion.

It served as the basis for the Islamic Legion .< ref >" US Officials Regard Chad Conflict As Big Test Of Wills With Khadafy.

In 1968, however, Wills refused to support Richard M. Nixon for the presidency and served as master of ceremonies for George C. Wallace, former governor of Alabama, for the California campaign stops in Wallace's presidential campaign.

Collector's Consist-A look back at the history of toy trains and model railroad manufacturers from the last 100 years, by Keith Wills.

He continues to work with Aubin & Wills as both a designer and model designing selected limited edition pieces.

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted Wills in 1968 and the Texas State Legislature honored him for his contribution to American music.

His father was a statewide champion fiddle player and the Wills family was either playing music, or someone was " always wanting us to play for them ," in addition to raising cotton on their farm.

" However, it was as " Jim Rob Wills ," paired with Herman Arnspiger, that he made his first commercial ( though unissued ) recordings in November 1929 for Brunswick / Vocalion.

Wills was known for his hollering and wisecracking.

The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.

About this time Wills purchased and performed with an old Guadagnini violin that had once fetched $ 7, 600 for $ 1, 600, the equivalent of about $ 24, 000 in 2009.

On April 3, 1948, Wills and the Texas Playboys appeared for the inaugural broadcast of the Louisiana Hayride on KWKH, broadcasting from the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Turning the club over to managers later revealed to be dishonest left Wills in desperate financial straits with heavy debts to the IRS for back taxes that caused him to sell many assets including, mistakenly, the rights to " New San Antonio Rose.

Even a 1958 return to KVOO, where his younger brother Johnnie Lee Wills had maintained the family's presence, did not produce the success he hoped for.

With Wills, Bubbles undertook freelance design commissions, including a redesign of Motor Racing magazine and a recipe book for the English Egg Marketing Board.

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

* August 27 – English lawyer Alfred Wills and party set out for the first ascent of the Wetterhorn in Switzerland, regarded as the start of the " golden age of alpinism ".

The glacial Lake Lapworth, was named for him by Leonard Johnston Wills in recognition of his original suggestion of its existence in 1898.

* L. Vinciguerra, L. Wills, N. Kejriwal, P. Martino, and R. Vinciguerra, " An Experimentation Framework for Evaluating Disassembly and Decompilation Tools for C ++ and Java ", Proc.

He discovered disco / soul artists, Viola Wills and Felice Taylor in 1965 and signed them to Mustang / Bronco Records, for which he was working as A & R manager for Bob Keane, the man who discovered Ritchie Valens.

Critical reactions to the album were largely positive ; Stephen Thompson in the Wisconsin State Journal described it as possessing " great lyrics, creative instrumentation and production that's about as simple as production gets ", Thomas Conner praised it for being " soulful and smooth, witty and gritty, this record makes the ghosts of Bob Wills, Buddy Holly and Lou Reed smile " in the Tulsa World, and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer noted its " gimlet eye and sardonic humor ".

( A three-time colored heavyweight champion, Wills held the title for a total of 3, 351 days.

He denied matches to black heavyweights Joe Jeanette ( one of his successors as colored heavyweight champ ), Sam Langford ( who beat Jeanette for the coloured title ), and the young Harry Wills ( who was coloured heavyweight champ during the last year of Johnson's reign as world's heavyweight champ ).